Wireless connects for health care
Home health care is pegging its success on wireless technologies, which in 2011 and beyond will be crucial to delivering health maintenance and management remotely. Companies such as General Electric, Intel and Qualcomm are refocusing their telehealth and independent-living app development efforts on wireless connectivity.
In a Qualcomm-developed illustration of the power behind wireless medical gateways as a critical part of the remote medical care solution, the data from body sensors communicates with a handheld wireless device via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or ultralow-power BAN radios. Another company engaged in this market is MedApps, whose HealthPAL mobile health monitoring device automatically and wirelessly transmits biometric readings to a server, making patient data available for remote monitoring and review. LynuxWorks, meanwhile, has teamed with Portwell Inc. to deliver a proof-of-concept wireless sensor platform, based on Intel chips, that can monitor more than 25 Bluetooth wireless biometric sensors and graphically portray the patient sensor data for visual monitoring in the familiar Windows environment.
Home health care is pegging its success on wireless technologies, which in 2011 and beyond will be crucial to delivering health maintenance and management remotely. Companies such as General Electric, Intel and Qualcomm are refocusing their telehealth and independent-living app development efforts on wireless connectivity.
In a Qualcomm-developed illustration of the power behind wireless medical gateways as a critical part of the remote medical care solution, the data from body sensors communicates with a handheld wireless device via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or ultralow-power BAN radios. Another company engaged in this market is MedApps, whose HealthPAL mobile health monitoring device automatically and wirelessly transmits biometric readings to a server, making patient data available for remote monitoring and review. LynuxWorks, meanwhile, has teamed with Portwell Inc. to deliver a proof-of-concept wireless sensor platform, based on Intel chips, that can monitor more than 25 Bluetooth wireless biometric sensors and graphically portray the patient sensor data for visual monitoring in the familiar Windows environment.
HealthPAL connects to medical devices via Bluetooth, takes readings then receives and transmits the information in the backgroundo HealthCOM, a MedApps' web-based portal for professional healthcare providers.
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